Galleries in Paris » JARRAR http://www.galleriesinparis.com Best Galleries in Paris Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:39:14 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 JARRAR – POLARIS http://www.galleriesinparis.com/exhibitions/jarrar-polaris/ http://www.galleriesinparis.com/exhibitions/jarrar-polaris/#comments Mon, 26 May 2014 10:42:37 +0000 Galleries http://www.galleriesinparis.com/?p=2958 Khaled Jarrar new exhibition at Galerie Polaris Gently I Pressed The Trigger , curated by Inês VALLE * :  Artists with a different background than in arts always interest me. Khaled JARRAR is one of them. Growing up with weapons around him and later holding one of those weapons for making a living, his attachment to those dangerous (for some, life saving) devices is damn realistic. Like how passionate he was about his “Palestinian passport stamping” project (he did not want to end it until palestine was a free country), Khaled Jarrar will hardly let go of his weapon. Only, his weapon has just changed. It is no longer a weapon of killing but a weapon of understanding: art. With every new work, Khaled Jarrar is understanding himself and his country. He also helps us understand his country and him, for there is no better way to understand a conflict ridden country than understanding the individuals who live through it.

For his latest work Khaled Jarrar is literally using the weapon, and literally to shoot. He shoots at bottles full of paint which then burst around to the surface of empty canvases placed alongside, making eerie paintings. If someone else has done the same ‘action painting’ we would not have been given much, other than an appropriation of the already rich art history in terms of such actions. But when an ex-soldier does it, it becomes more than an art work. His action is a personal trauma eased, a self reflection on a past that forcibly shaped him like many of his compatriots.

Like earlier actions which infiltrated his personal uniform, his weapon, or blood stained notebook into his work, this one is not a mere strategy in art making; not something that would awe audiences. For Khaled Jarrar, these works of art are like the bread on his table. Take them away from him, he will starve, emotionally

]]> http://www.galleriesinparis.com/exhibitions/jarrar-polaris/feed/ 0 KHALED JARRAR – POLARIS http://www.galleriesinparis.com/exhibitions/khaled-jarrar-polaris/ http://www.galleriesinparis.com/exhibitions/khaled-jarrar-polaris/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:29:58 +0000 Galleries http://www.galleriesinparis.com/?p=1289 Khaled Jarrar considered as of one the most interesting new artist from the Middle East is a Palestinian artist born and currently living in Ramallah.Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art-Palestine with a BA in Visual Art in 2011.
He entered the world of photography in 2004, his first exhibition « At the Checkpoint” in 2007 has been placed in full view of the Israeli soldiers at Howarra & Qalandia checkpoint. He is selected for the Berlin Biennale of 2012.
For this exhibition at the Galerie Polaris, which will be his first one-man show in a gallery, four videos, photographs and an installation will be shown:
Passage is a dramatic video in which Palestinian men and women cross the wall between Jerusalem and the West bank through a clandestine tunnel.
In the second and “ ubuesque “ video, Wet Suit, we follow a man in a scuba-diving outfit in the streets of Ramallah. The video emphasizes the Ubuesque side of an individual who will not find a single drop of water in the city.
The installation Docile Soldier takes the relationship between the photographer and his subject to the extreme. In this case, the photographer is a Captain officer (Khaled Jarrar is himself a Captain of the Presidential Palestinian Guard) who takes close portraits of his unit, as they become soldiers. The video and the portraits are both displayed in the gallery.
The video I. Soldier is an observation of other soldiers from filmed from a roof as going through their daily exercises that have become a routine practice in their life. They are subjugated to a well-planned ideological process that aims to unite them intellectually and physically.
Extracts of the performance Live and Work in Palestine will also be shown such as The State of Palestine stamp project :
Khaled Jarrar compensates for the absence of a Palestinian State by designing both a passport stamp and a postal stamp with the “State of Palestine” symbol – a sun-bird . This symbolic project uses art in an open confrontation with reality, and asks the audience to participate in the experience, while passports are stamped with the new seal. Jarrar didn’t just take pictures of people with their stamped passports, but he also collects reports of their own experiences at the Israeli border through the project’s Facebook page.
Khaled Jarrar’s works unfolds in a series of questions that call for more questions.

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